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Nathan Osman

12:15 AM

Looks like http://knoppix.net was compromised.

(Warning: don't try to load the page...)

I'm still trying to figure out exactly what's going on there.

ByteCommander

12:36 AM

Anybody knows why rooms I starred on chat.stackoverflow.com don't come up in the favourite room list here?

RPi Awesomeness

1:28 AM

Indeed :D

:P wonderful. More star-spam :(

TheX

Sup?

RPi Awesomeness

Well, I took an practice AP microeconomics test, did some Physics, found some sources for my research paper, and won two rounds of competitive CS:GO.

I'm feeling pretty good about today.

Oh, and Algebra 2 as well as winning the game we played in Gym and finishing up my personal finance class.

Journeyman Geek

@ByteCommander: different servers

RPi Awesomeness

Anyone know how I would tell the way that I installed my NVIDIA drivers? I think I did it via xorg-edgers PPA, but I have this feeling I may not have and might have done it via the installer from NVIDIA...

TheX

You play CS:GO? (yes that was pretty much all I got out of that)

RPi Awesomeness

1:39 AM

@TheX Indeed.

Currently unranked though, sadly :(

Almost 30-bombed my first game though :D

TheX

I think I have counter strike, but I don't remember which one..

RPi Awesomeness

Actually, there was two of us who almost 30-bombed. The other guy had a final total of 28 IIRC and I had 25.

We won 16-5.

TheX

Oh it is GO....

but I am pretty bad...

RPi Awesomeness

We should play some time :D

Our CT side was very impressive, had to re-take B bombsite several times.

TheX

it is among the 63 steam games I don't have time to play...

What is your steam name? I will add you.

RPi Awesomeness

1:41 AM

If you want to get better, watch WarOwl. He's incredibly talented and knows the game, especially strats, incredibly well.

I'll tell you on your MC server. Don't want to post it in public chat :P

TheX

Oh okay sure...

Avinash Raj

3:22 AM

Wohooo, reached 100k ... stackexchange.com/users/3438751/avinash-raj

Seth

3:53 AM

Nice job @AvinashRaj! You haven't spent much time hanging out here lately :(

Nathan Osman

FYI: 15.04 final beta is out.

And I was about to say that a couple minutes ago when my phone hard-reset for no reason.

Avinash Raj

4:33 AM

@Seth Thanks..

Vinu Kevy

Hello

Anyone?

Need help

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

6:08 AM

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Q: Can I print via CUPS on ARM device without drivers by installing CUPS onto an x86 server with drivers?

I just spent a few frustrating hours troubleshooting on a Raspberry Pi 2 only to find out that it is impossible to print to my Canon printer natively using CUPS. Thankfully, my printer supports Google Cloud Print and I could just use a nice tool called CUPS Cloud Print to redirect my printing job...

abhi

6:37 AM

:)

Rinzwind

w t h

-2

Q: MY PC HAS BEEN HACKED AND I NEED YOUR HELP!

My Ubuntu is receiving inbound traffic while my PC is disconnected from Ethernet and WIFI, so my question is, how am I receiving inbound traffic? I even have a firewall that is turned on. The information below is optional to read; however, it will give you a better understanding about my problem...

security firewall

@NathanOsman yay

Fabby

7:39 AM

@Rinzwind This guy is clearly delusional...

Nothing you say will make him change his ways and he needs professional help,

but he is on disability, so he probably is...

Ask Ubuntu Meta

8:03 AM

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Q: How to help a paranoid, delusional user?

Earlier today, this question was asked and contained a delusional rant about the KKK and the FBI and looked a bit like an episode of the X-files... My question is simple: Should we help this user (by calming him down as Andrew T. did) or close these kind of questions?

discussion support

Oli

8:37 AM

Hmm, smoke detector needs its batteries changing.

DTSCode

8:47 AM

is anyone up?

well if anyone is... i just built a linux kernel from source on my mint machine. how would i install it on my ubuntu partition?

Oli

9:14 AM

@DTSCode Package it (with make deb-pkg), copy it over, install.

DTSCode

and i can do this all from the mint partition?

@Oli

Journeyman Geek

@Rinzwind: 0_0

Oli

@DTSCode Not sure I understand... Can you install the package into Ubuntu while running Mint?

Fabby

@JourneymanGeek: Just read your comment... :-) See also meta question above! >:)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to set the monitor brightness gracefully at boot time?

I've been using a loop that contains xrandr --output VGA1 --brightness 0.3 in a bash script which will automatically execute right after logging in by gnome-session-properties (a.k.a. Startup Applications). Is there any configuration file that can control the monitor brightness while a display c...

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Journeyman Geek

9:29 AM

@Fabby saw that too ;p

Fabby

>:) You should have seen the comments and the ruckus before I edited the question...

It's just a user in need of help...

(In more then one way... :-( )

Journeyman Geek

Yeah

Rinzwind

10:02 AM

@JourneymanGeek jman \o

Journeyman Geek

o/

Rinzwind

I am nearing 90k <3

Journeyman Geek

nice

Not been as active as I used to be, got a job ;p

Rinzwind

I got a job too :=D

currently I am sending about 450 pdfs out.
well a program is and I am watchign it

Journeyman Geek

(and movie credits soon! Hopefully not on something embarassingly bad)

hbdgaf

10:28 AM

Could not stop laughing... love it

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

11:00 AM

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Q: Live USB repeatedly gives error 'Failed to load ldlinux.c32'

I'm trying to put Ubuntu on my desktop. Right now, it and my laptop are running Manjaro 3.18. I've been using Unetbootin to create the live USB on my laptop. I've tried several different versions of Ubuntu, as well as a couple other distros. I've removed and reinstalled Unetbootin a few times as ...

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Mateo

11:25 AM

@Rinzwind oh... The same guy

That had a team of hackers sent by his dad to sabatoge his migration to Linux

It couldn't have been just regular hardware problems, or the fault of wine, or a dying hard drive ;p - has to be ninja hackers...

Oli

12:32 PM

@Fabby FWIW, I still wasn't happy with how we were handling that post and thought it best to ask on MSE.

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Q: How to responsibly direct users with serious mental health issues?

I am not talking about people with borderline personality or spectrum disorder issues (like rudeness), rather behaviours like paranoia and depression. A recent question on Ask Ubuntu highlighted that I just don't know how to safely deal with some personality traits. It was a long and extremely...

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That may well not be the case here but it never hurts to be too careful or considerate when somebody's well-being is at stake.

muru

1:16 PM

what's with the rather high number of link-only answer flags?

posts that are 2 or three years old are being dug up

karel

1:52 PM

@muru Thanks for editing my stuff. It seems like I'll never learn about "the useless uses of cat".

Ask Ubuntu Meta

2:21 PM

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Q: Top answers are still sub-optimal on questions about MTP devices

I already noticed that Luis alone marked the following question as a duplicate some time ago: My MTP capable device is not detected? What can I do about that? Here is my observation on the topic: There have been many very localized questions about MTP support on a variety of devices. There hav...

discussion duplicates knowledge-management

Seth

@muru I'm noticing that too, but I haven't noticed them coming from a single person.. Perhaps the system is finally working? :D

lol @Mateo putting it that way makes it sound so much sillier..

Rinzwind

copy/paste from somewhere: http://askubuntu.com/questions/602045/cant-find-ttyusb-in-dev-after-connecting-my-usb-dongle
The 1st 4 words are a big clue >:)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2:41 PM

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Q: Java jre 6 installation

I installed Java 6 (jre-6u45-linux-x64.bin) on a Ubuntu 12.04 machine following the procedure from this link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1904467 . When I later installed Java 7 and checked the version of the current java it showed Java 6. And yet, a program that requires Java 7 to r...

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Mateo

3:01 PM

@Seth I'd think I'd rather believe his dad is Steve blamer, he stole top secret windows 8 plans that would have made the os amazing. So this is the reason he has to dislike Linux so much, this would explain the relentless hacking, and give us a reason to help - at least it could get some really good interest on skeptics or security.se

Thomas W.

3:23 PM

askubuntu.com/a/602054/10616 <-- not an answer

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

3:33 PM

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Q: SSH listening on multiple ports with whitelist only on one port

I need sshd to both listen on port 22225 (and allow connections on that port from ANY ip) and port 22 (allowing just ONE static ip on that port) at the same time. In other words, listen on two ports at the same time while whitelisting connections only on one port. Is there a way to do that? I'm r...

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RPi Awesomeness

3:57 PM

Is it just me, or did Youtube change their fonts?

They look bigger, but thinner...

Seth

4:48 PM

@Mateo Steve blamer? LOL

terdon

@Seth Don't balm the game, balm the player sounds a bit strange though.

Mateo

@Seth autocorrect...

terdon

@Mateo Don't balm the game...

That might become my new favorite phrase.

Mateo

Almost want to comment "try pinging 127.0.0.1"

Rehan Ullah

5:28 PM

Hello guys what is happening?

Mateo

Not much :)

Rehan Ullah

Not much. Okay! Don't worry. I am going to ask a question. Will you answer?

You went away. Okay! I will try some other time. How good of u!

Mateo

Still around ;)

Ask away, there are many people around :)

I'm on my phone so might take a min or two between talking here.

Rehan Ullah

Thank you. What I wanted to ask is that there is any difference between zorin os 9 and ubuntu except the display environment.

Mateo

5:56 PM

I'm sure there a quite a few changes here and there

One of the major things would be that we don't support derivatives on ask Ubuntu unless they are official flavours

Nathan Osman

6:13 PM

I'll tell you guys what's up... GitHub got hammered this morning with a massive DDoS attack.

And when we're talking about GitHub, we're talking about "huge".

And Slack had their database breached.

Just a typical Friday :|

Nathan Osman

6:46 PM

Raspberry Pi 2 has been ordered.

I'm also getting three copper heatsinks.

Rinzwind

7:06 PM

bloodborne... update file of 3Gb ... wth

Nathan Osman

Does anyone understand the concept of a delta update anymore???

Fabby

@Oli Thanks again!

Fabby

7:31 PM

@Oli According to the most up-voted answer, we didn't do too bad! Thanks again... (I owe you an entire evening out in the pub by now with all the stuff you've done for me.) ;-)

Mateo

8:41 PM

hi @hbdgaf , I got your stickers in an envelope and in the mailbox should be there sometime next week, and @TheX yours got sent as well.

hbdgaf

\o/ stickers.

Mateo

so, I had an idea while working this morning

hbdgaf

<- is listening

Mateo

remember how your were doing a mirrors edge type toturial game on ue4 - what if you combined a type of flag football multiplayer game, was thinking about characters running around with 3-4 feet long flags hooked to their waist

trying to take the other players flags

hbdgaf

That would be super easy, but then you have to rig and animate all the models or find assets ready to snap in to ue4. The flag part is super easy though. It's just a rear facing invisible child collision box

Nathan Osman

8:46 PM

Hmm... Twitter is rejecting status updates with identical message body.

How many different permutations are there of "site xxx.com is down"?

:P

hbdgaf

Anyone see the github attempted DDoS? article

Nathan Osman

3 hours ago, by Nathan Osman

I'll tell you guys what's up... GitHub got hammered this morning with a massive DDoS attack.

Mateo

thought it might be fun as the flag would do a bit of path following on your character, so the more jumps and turns, the harder it would be to pull your flag

hbdgaf

Oh, well that makes it harder since your dealing with really small collision stuffs.

Mateo

kind of like shinobi's scarf

hbdgaf

8:52 PM

yeah, i get the idea. it would be harder to do. you'ld also have to have a "grab" button and a reticle and do a little raycasting.

Mateo

hm, yeah... that would be tricky.

hbdgaf

it would be interesting if you worked in either the american flag football or freerun race/chase angle. freerun race/chase could be really interesting if you got points for winning the race and worked with "do you really want to be in front? not really"

Mateo

hm, the person in the back could have more flags in the end because no one is taking them

hbdgaf

yes, i was thinking a delay on the spawn of the flag though, so it only pays to be in front when you can take different paths or break away.

then you'ld have to have a "speed burst" power up though.

Mateo

hm, trick based combo bonus or mario cart type pickups?

Nathan Osman

8:57 PM

Wow, that GitHub attack was something else.

hbdgaf

either way could work, but trick based would be more fun and engaging.

@NathanOsman yeah - you read the article?

Nathan Osman

Just finished it.

hbdgaf

Yeah. I was somewhere between "Wow, that's evil" and "Nicely done"

Nathan Osman

I'd be curious to hear what kind of traffic they were dealing with (like 5 Gbps, etc.).

hbdgaf

It'ld be nice to see those numbers. I imagine Github will blog about it. The alert trick was also nice on Github's part.

Would also be nice to see the math on "And this is the traffic we WOULD have been looking at without the alert stall"

Nathan Osman

9:01 PM

Yeah.

hbdgaf

Only two projects got hammered though according to the article. Sounds more like a test drive to me. What if they had put in a few thousand URLs for popular projects...

chili555

9:14 PM

@Fabby Are you there, mon ami?

Fabby

@chili555 Oui mon cher?

(sorry to have missed that: I just turned my head for a minute)

chili555

I tried to get puffin at several places but it is evidently a bit seasonal. As usual, I was there at just the wrong time!

Fabby

Oooh! :(

I didn't know it was seasonal...

Well, we live and we learn...

Had fun?

chili555

The cod and Brennivin were excellent, though!

Fabby

National Geographic quality pictures again?

chili555

9:25 PM

Very much! I shall email the link.

Fabby

Brandy in Icelandic!

Just a bit different from the brandy you're used to, no?

>:)

More like vodka!

chili555

Yes, indeed! Kept me nice and warm! Email sent.

Fabby

Brennivin literally means "burnt wine"

Did anyone tell you?

Looking!

chili555

No. First I heard.

hbdgaf

out of the blue I wonder if we'll ever get the Duskwatch movie of the Nightwatch/Daywatch trilogy.

Fabby

9:33 PM

:D

Fantastic pics! Like I suspected: NatGeo quality!

chili555

Thank you so much. I am humbled.

Fabby

"suspected" sounds pejorative...

what would be a good word? (except "thought")

hbdgaf

anticipated

Fabby

You should feel the opposite of humbled...

Yes!

That's the word on the tip of my tongue!

THX!

@chili555 You should feel proud...

(but then that's one of the 7 capital sins, right?)

You should feel good about it! :D

Vin = wine
Brenni = burn

(and google translate is useless)

chili555

LOL! Like Ubuntu, I do it for the fun of it and it's gratifying when someone finds the result good.

Fabby

9:38 PM

:-)

The best life there is!

Nathan Osman

I'm doing a static build of Qt 5 on my Pi.

Could take days to compile... :P

Fabby

Doing something you like and advancing the human race at the same time...

;-)

chili555

Ideally so.

Fabby

Now, if the pay would be better, it would be the perfect job! ;-)

:D

chili555

LOLOL!

...and the hours...

Fabby

9:39 PM

:D:D:D

I don't mind the hours...

It's something I currently have time for

and hopefully in the near future will not have time for any more...

(or max 1H/day)

And I'm still learning a lot...

chili555

I hope all of us are.

Fabby

@chili555 If you would take someone into a chat room, I'd like to be invited as well and see you at work and learn some more

(about the way you go about solving the issue)

chili555

If I can, I will.

Fabby

Yeah, because our hours don't overlap so good...

BTW: the job in the South-East is a nono...

They preferred an American with international exposure to

an internationalist with domestic exposure...

:-)

I'm going for a bad habit and then back to looking at pics and then some more Questions...

chili555

I hope, in the end, that missing that one will leave you available for an even better opportunity ahead.

Fabby

9:44 PM

As usual: nice talking to a real gentleman...

:-)

chili555

Likewise.

Fabby

That's a game called "life"... ;-)

hbdgaf

o/ @Takkat - been a bit of time. How goes it?

Takkat

@hbdgaf Hi fairly well here.

1 week off work just started \o/

hbdgaf

I have some of that coming soon, but it's too slow getting here, since I've been running double-time for over six months.

Takkat

9:51 PM

aaand this error "Failed to retrieve share list from server: No such file or directory" stops me from accessing my directory on the machine my wife works atm.

hbdgaf

I hope that was a joke. If you read it a certain way - it can make you laugh pretty hard.

Takkat

so I need all my memory to remember that I need to put two " in my code for gettzing rid of a bug.

oh how much difference this two " will make - sigh.

No more bug ( at least not that I am aware of )

Tomorrow I will have no time for coding - visiting friends in Switzerland.

hbdgaf

I like some things about Switzerland from an academic perspective, but I've never been there.

Takkat

It is like everywhere in the world, only that people speak differently.

<-- always thinks that the world is the same everywhere if we look close enough

hbdgaf

Yes and no. The philosophy of putting 5 languages on a product as opposed to crying about putting a second one (people get upset about that in the US mostly in areas with poor breeding). Y'all is in Murica. Speak the English - sort of thing. And yes, I'm making light of my native country. It's not just the speaking differently.

Takkat

9:59 PM

I always was disappointed when abroad - the difference was less than thought.

hbdgaf

Made it to Italy once. There were differences that I liked, and there were some I didn't. It's sort of a finding the place that suits you the best thing I think. I'm not sure a lot of people, myself included, have the opportunity to do that.

Fabby

10:26 PM

So funny! Both Oli and Terdon on the same Q&A! askubuntu.com/questions/599840/…

hbdgaf

I read that as "Don't post an answer here unless you REALLY want to box"

Nathan Osman

11:08 PM

I need to overclock my Pi. Badly.